Eli Zaretsky

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Eli Zaretsky is Professor of History at The New School for Social Research. He has taught at Lang College since 1999. His interests are in twentieth century cultural history, the theory and history of capitalism (especially its social and cultural dimensions), and the history of the family. His most recent book is Political Freud, published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press. His earlier work includes Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis and Why America Needs a Left. He is the editor of The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; and of Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life.

"Psychoanalysis, the Family and Personal Life: Narcissism and the 'Relational Revolution' of the 1960," E.I.A.L. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Volume 18, Number 1, (2007). Special issue on transnational psychoanalysis.

“The Place of Psychoanalysis in the History of the Jews,” Psychoanalysis and History, vol. 8, no. 2, 2006.